The following appears on ENXmag.com
By Michael Nadeau – How a company leverages technology has a huge impact on how well it performs. The challenge is that not many people have the business and tech savvy necessary to get both in sync toward reaching a goal. That’s part of what makes Tawnya Stone exceptional and this week’s Difference Maker.
“I grew up in IT, however, across multiple industries,” said Stone, VP of strategic partner technology at GreatAmerica Financial Services. She held positions at Philips Electronics and Verizon Communications prior to spending six years at GreatAmerica as an IT project manager.
“That role gave me exposure to our internal programs and supporting systems. After working on a few projects, I started to learn our customers’ side of the business. When an opportunity arose to work more on the business side, I jumped and haven’t looked back.
I still interface very closely with IT designing solutions, but get to work with the people who use the technology and see the tremendous benefit it provides.”
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